Small boy kills big pig

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Originally Posted by CarlMetro

If I'm totally honest, the callibre doesn't really matter, the age of the shooter is more of a distrubing factor to me, not the size of his weapon ( no pun intended).

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Thanks for clarifying. I understand the logic behind that.

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Originally Posted by CarlMetro

I guess I'd feel different if I was brought up where gun culture was part of everyday life, where it's perfectly normal for a 5 year old child to be given a gun to shoot deer, and where every now and then a pi$$ed-off-with-life 16/18 year old, who has probably shot his first deer at the age of 5 or 6, walks around his school/local mall and kills anything that moves until he runs out of ammo.

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I'd say you're probably off on your average age of normality, but I think I see the point you're trying to make. And I don't agree with that point. Kids who are brought up in a (true) "hunting culture", as you might put it, I would say are much LESS likely to be school yard shooters. These kids usually have fathers (a family member on the endangered species list in the U.S.), who train them in the safe use of firearms and actually spend time with their kids. You learn to respect the power of the firearm and the inherent danger in what you're doing. It's the kids who don't know who their daddies are (but mommy brings home lots of "uncles"), participate in few if any after school activities, have few friends and spend most of their free time in front of a computer screen, conversing with other dope smoking, gender confused malcontents and shooting virtual people as fast as they can, that I would worry about.

I don't know what hunters are like over there. But generally speaking, hunters in the U.S. are much more in tune with, and respectful of, nature and the environment than the average Joe.

Other than being overweight, I'd say the kid who shot this hog is someone who has himself fairly "together"... as much as 11 year olds can be "together". It's the kids that wear black eye makeup, have pierced lips and noses and play that goofy "the world is out to get me" music that I would keep a close eye on. Anyone who hunts knows that you spend more time than anything watching leaves blow in the wind, birds chirp and animals you AREN'T going to shoot walk around you.

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

It's the kids that wear black eye makeup, have pierced lips and noses and play that goofy "the world is out to get me" music that I would keep a close eye on.

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And the ones that wear classic Reeboks / or knackered Converse, tracky bottoms tucked in socks and run around council estates pretending they are gangsters. ;)

I didn't think a boy shooting a pig was worth the news. I didn't think denying a boy shooting a pig was worth the news. And I CERTAINLY don't think a boy insisting he shot a pig is worth the news. Who cares? What has this world come to? Aren't there any important things to report anymore? Doesn't it require more accuracy and skill to kill a tiny pig than a big one?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276386,00.html

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Originally Posted by Eki

I didn't think a boy shooting a pig was worth the news. I didn't think denying a boy shooting a pig was worth the news. And I CERTAINLY don't think a boy insisting he shot a pig is worth the news. What has this world come to? Aren't there any important things to report anymore?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276386,00.html

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Now I understand why you hate America but are so poorly informed.

Looking at FoxNews for actual meaningful news....


I can't think of an anaology to describe how poor of an idea that is.

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Originally Posted by L5->R5/CR

Now I understand why you hate America but are so poorly informed.

Looking at FoxNews for actual meaningful news....


I can't think of an anaology to describe how poor of an idea that is.

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That would be part of the truth if I actually hated America, I just don't understand it.

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Originally Posted by Eki

That would be part of the truth if I actually hated America, I just don't understand it.

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Reading FoxNews certainly isn't going to help...

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Originally Posted by L5->R5/CR

Reading FoxNews certainly isn't going to help...

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I know, but it's strangely entertaining. What worries me is that there might be people out there who take FoxNews seriously.

You people take something like this too serious. Did you even look at that pig? That thing is freaking huge. It is enormous. I wold have loved to shoot that thing. Who really cares what age that person was. If he was 12 or 112. That pig was huge. I saw that and said wow, but you guys/girls saw that kid is the next mass shooter. Come on. Why does eveyone have to be so serious? Can't you have some fun. Look at that pic and say cool.

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Originally Posted by Eki

I didn't think a boy shooting a pig was worth the news. I didn't think denying a boy shooting a pig was worth the news. And I CERTAINLY don't think a boy insisting he shot a pig is worth the news. Who cares? What has this world come to? Aren't there any important things to report anymore? Doesn't it require more accuracy and skill to kill a tiny pig than a big one?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276386,00.html

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It was the SIZE of the pig that made it news. The largest wild pig known before that was one the called Hogzilla that was hunted in southern Georgia a few years ago. It was estimated at 800 pounds. This one is 250 pounds bigger.

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Originally Posted by DBell

It was the SIZE of the pig that made it news. The largest wild pig known before that was one the called Hogzilla that was hunted in southern Georgia a few years ago. It was estimated at 800 pounds. This one is 250 pounds bigger.

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Then why not just shoot him with a tranquilizer gun, weigh him on an industrial or a truck scale and release him back to the wilderness. THAT would require some effort and be news.